Kudos

Brown University

Robert Francis Goheen, president of Princeton Litt.D.

Citation: ''May the wisdom of ... Sophocles temper your despair as you encounter problems that cannot readily be solved, and your soldier's courage drive you to their solutions . . ."

Helen Hayes, actress LL.D.

Sidney E. Smith, Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs LL.D.

Citation: "As president of two universities, you had the patience of Job, the endurance of Samson, the wit of Puck, and the virtue Caesar's wife had not. All these qualities . . . you will bring to ... the baffled world of diplomacy, where good humor and a clear mind are more effective than legalism and ceremony."

John Hay Whitney, Ambassador to Great Britain LL.D.

Clarkson College of Technology

John Alex McCone, newly appointed member of the AEC L.H.D.

Columbia University

Padraic Colum, poet, critic and dramatist Litt.D.

Per Jacobsson, managing director, International Monetary Fund. . LL.D.

James Rhyne Killian Jr., the President's Special assistant for science. . . .Sc.D.

Citation: "In a tense and turbulent hour, his is a calm voice, one we do well to heed."

Herbert Henry Lehman, former U.S. Senator from New York LL.D.

Creighton University

Major General Bernard A. Schriever, Air Force missile chief . . .Sc.D.

Dartmouth College The Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame LL.D.

DePauw University

Leroy E. Burney, U.S. Surgeon General Sc.D.

Maurice Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of Great Britain LL.D.

Gettysburg College

Margaret Chase Smith, U.S. Senator from Maine . . .LL.D.

Hood College

Sylvia Porter, columnist.

LL.D.

Citation: "Wife, mother, brilliant writer and noble person, all in one superb package . . ." [See PRESS.]

Kenyon College

John Crowe Ransom, poet, critic and teacher Litt.D.

Citation: "We remember your poems that make a miracle of language . . . [and] the no less sensitive critical insights . . . Finally, we remember that your Olympian preoccupation does not prevent you from loving a ball game, a horse race, a political campaign, a televised western and tomatoes in your garden."

Loras College

Carlos P. Romulo, Philippine Ambassador to the U.S. LL.D.

Michigan State University

Adlai E. Stevenson. .

LL.D.

Citation: "As Governor of Illinois and as candidate for President of the United States, you acquitted yourself as an exceptional statesman with a deep loyalty to the principle of liberty . . ."

Mount Holyoke College

Marian Anderson, singer Mus.D.

Mount St. Mary's College

Dwight David Eisenhower LL.D.

Citation: "You once forged the most perfect alliance of nations in the world's history for the salvation and vindication of democracy in the greatest of world wars . . . Even as President . . . yours has always been the soldier's way . . . You have been the true patriot, and in our time, fust in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of your countrymen . . . You have held the flag aloft in the dark night of war and the dreary day of its aftermath . . ."

New York University

John F. Brosnan, chancellor, University of the State of New York LL.D.

Citation: "One of the many stellar products that Brooklyn has sent into spacious orbit . . ."

Jack Isidor Straus, chairman, R. H. Macy&Co.,Inc D.C.S.

Citation: ". . . Head of the greatest mercantile establishment of its kind extant, a New York landmark that is the pride and also the benevolent pickpocket of the City at large, whose Red Star is the lodestar for thrifty shoppers the world over . . ."

Quincy College

Bob Hope, actor LL.D.

John Kennedy, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts LL.D.

Russell Sage College

Sanford L. Cluett, shirtmaker, inventor of Sanforizing Sc.D.

Rutgers University

Charles P. Bailey, pioneer in heart surgery L.H.D.

William J. Brennan Jr., Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court LL.D.

Richard Palmer Blackmur, poet and critic Litt.D.

Saint Louis University

Wernher von Braun, space and missile scientist Sc.D.

Citation: "Infinite patience with official apathy, frustrating bureaucracy, and public disbelief in two countries . . ."

Salem College (Salem, W. Va.)

Branch Rickey, chairman, Pittsburgh Pirates Doctor of Humanics

Syracuse University

Sir Leslie Knox Munro, president, U.N. General Assembly LL.D.

Tufts University

General Curtis LeMay, Air Force vice chief of staff Sc.D.

Citation: "Distinguished military officer, combat hero, aeronautical pioneer, talented administrator, dedicated public servant, leader of men, right arm of the shield of the Republic . . ."

University of Arizona

William Grant Stratton, Governor of Illinois LL.D.

Citation: "You have learned well the art of public service and you have exemplified honor and integrity in the administration of the affairs of a great state . . . You have established records of achievement that are worthy of emulation . . ."

University of Maryland

Milton Eisenhower, president of Johns Hopkins LL.D.

University of Massachusetts

Paul A. Siple, scientist-explorer of the South Pole Sc.D.

University of Notre Dame

James P. Mitchell, Secretary of Labor LL.D.

Alfred Sloan, philanthropist LL.D.

University of Redlands Lee A. DuBridge, president, California Institute of Technology L.H.D.

Wesleyan University

John G. Diefenbaker, Prime Minister of Canada LL.D.

Roger Huntington Sessions, composer and musicologist Mus.D.

Wilson College

Siobhan McKenna, actress L.H.D.

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